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For thousands of children and parents, it鈥檚 back-to-school time, and along with the usual matters that inevitably arise 鈥攚hich backpack to buy and where to buy it, what to pick up for lunches, what鈥檚 in fashion and what鈥檚 not, whether the teacher and the student will be a good fit and what the class will look like鈥攃omes the spectre of the bully.

No parent wants to find out their child is the victim of bullying at school, and certainly no child is eager to be the target of intimidation or mistreatment by a classmate.

Adam McCrimmon thinks that some children may be more susceptible to bullying than others, and he鈥檚 hoping to understand why that鈥檚 the case and what, if anything, can be done to improve their situations.

McCrimmon, as Assistant Professor in the Werklund School of Education, studies children and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). McCrimmon is also a member of the  , part of the  research theme at the University of Calgary. He鈥檚 undertaken a research project to learn more about what some children with ASD who have been bullied鈥攁nd others who haven鈥檛--can teach him, in the hope that he can help those who find themselves targeted.

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